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LYON, APPLETON P., in Mount Vernon, N. Y., November 27; born in Erie, Pa., June 12, 1840. At 16 was tutor in a normal school, Lebanon, Ohio, and later professor of mathematics in the same school. He studied at Brown, at Amherst, and at Union Theological Seminary. Was the friend and adviser of students and botanists. His library was one of the best botanical libraries in the United States, and was much used for reference. It contained at the time of his death 22.000 books and pamphlets and a collection of 285,000 classified pictures of plants, with texts, to compile which took Professor Lyon and his wife twelve years.

MAPES, WALTER DECKER, July 30, in Brooklyn, N. Y; born in Matamoras, Pa., September 26, 1863. Graduate of Williams College in 1886. Was instructor at Williams one year; at Central High School, Cleveland, for twelve years, and the last year of his life taught at Erasmus High School, Brooklyn. MARKOE, THOMAS M., M. D., at East Hampton, N. Y., August 26; born in Philadelphia September 13, 1819. Graduate of Princeton in 1836 and of the New York College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1841. Was professor of surgery in the latter institution for thirty years (1860 to 1890).

MARSHALL, JOHN P., in Medford, Mass., February 5; born at Kingston, N. H., August 11, 1823. Graduate of Yale in 1844. Taught in Effingham, N. H., and in Chelsea and Danvers, Mass. In 1854 became professor in Tufts College, where he remained until his death.

MASSEY, JOHN E., in Charlottesville, Va., April; born in Spottsylvania County April 2, 1819. Studied at the Friends' School; was admitted to the bar; later was ordained Baptist minister. He served eight years (1890 to 1898) as State superintendent of public instruction.

MEEHAN, THOMAS, in Philadelphia November 19; born in England March 21, 1826, He was chiefly self-educated, and was at one time head gardener to Vernon Harcourt, Isle of Wight. He came to the United States in 1848; was active in promoting education in botany and horticulture, and was the first to succeed in flowering the Victoria regia in America. He was for twenty-three years senior vice-president of the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences, and at one time a member of the board of visitors to Harvard College. MESERVEY, ATWOOD BOND, at Hampton, N. H., February 21; born in Appleton, Me., September 30, 1831. Graduate of New Hampton Literary Institution, New Hampshire, in 1857, and of New Hampton Biblical School in 1860. Studied medicine at Bowdoin; was resident licentiate at Andover Theological Seminary, class of 1861, and studied at Brown University. Was ordained pastor in 1861. Was professor at New Hampton Literary Institution from 1862 to 1867; principal of Northwood Seminary, Northwood, N. H., from 1863 to 1868, and principal of New Hampton Literary Institution from 1868 to 1898. Received the degree of Ph. D. from Bates College in 1873, and that of D. D. in 1873. In 1867 was elected to the New Hampshire legislature. MICHIE, PETER S., Ph. D., LL. D., at West Point, N. Y., February 16; born in Brechin, Scotland, March 24, 1839. Graduate of West Point in 1863; reached the rank of brigadier-general of volunteers; was highly esteemed as a professor at West Point, serving there until his death. Was the author of Elements of Wave Motion relating to Sound and Light, and of several other works. Was a member of the board of overseers of the Thayer School of Engineering of Dartmouth College.

MUHLENBERG, F. A., D. D., in Reading, Pa., March 21; born in Lancaster, Pa., August 25, 1818. Graduate of Princeton in 1836. Professor at Franklin College, Lancaster, Pa., and subsequently president of Muhlenberg College until

he resigned to become professor of Greek in the University of Pennsylvania. In 1891 accepted the presidency of Thiel College, Greenville, Pa. MYERS, JOHN A., in San Francisco, April 10. Graduate of Bethany College, West Virginia. Studied at Berlin. Was instructor at Bethany and at Butler, Ind., also professor at the State University of Kentucky, which position he resigned to establish the agricultural experiment station in West Virginia. NELSON, EDWIN, in Amherst, Mass., June 11; born in Upton, Mass., February 22, 1828. Graduate of Amherst in 1853. Taught on Long Island; was principal of Amherst Academy and of Litchfield (Me.) Academy, and teacher in Lowell, Mass.

NEWCOMB, GEORGE W., in Chicago, April; born in Putney, Vt., April 12, 1825. Graduate of Hamilton College in 1849. Taught in Sherburne, Ames, and Utica academies, New York. He subsequently engaged in the practice of law. NEWCOMB, Mrs. JOSEPHINE LEMONIE, in New York City, in April; born in Baltimore of French descent. After the death of her only child she founded in her memory the H. Sophie Newcomb Memorial College for girls, an adjunct to Tulane University, New Orleans. She also built in Lexington, Va., a memorial chapel to Gen. Robert E. Lee.

NICHOLS, W. A., D. D., at Lake Forest, Ill., June 25; born at Buckland, Mass., April 4, 1808. Graduate of Amherst in 1834. Taught a family school at Lake Forest and published numerous works.

NICOLLET, S. EUGENE, S. J., in Mobile, Ala., December; born in Paris July 26, 1864. Came to New Orleans in 1884; studied at Woodstock, Md.; taught in Galveston and other places, and settled as chaplain of St. Mary's Orphan Asylum.

NINDE, W. X., D. D., LL. D., in Detroit, January 3; born in Cortland, N. Y., June 21, 1832. Graduate of the Wesleyan University, at Middletown, Conn. Entered the ministry; was professor and president of Garrett Biblical Institute, Illinois.

NORRIS, WILLIAM F., M.D., in Philadelphia; born in Pennsylvania. Graduate of the University of Pennsylvania in 1861. Served as surgeon in the civil war. Was professor of ophthalmology at the university at the time of his death.

PADDOCK, F. K., in Pittsfield, Mass., August 1; born in Hamilton, N. Y., December 19, 1841. Graduated in medicine at the Berkshire Medical College in 1864; subsequently became dean of the college faculty.

PAGE, JOHN R., M. D., at the University of Virginia, aged 71. Was a professor at the University of Louisiana and in the Medical College of Baltimore, Md. In 1873 became professor of agriculture, chemistry, and the science of farming. In 1887 resigned to resume the practice of the medical profession. PARENT, Mrs. MARIE (MCCOSKEY), in New Orleans: born in Liverpool, England, 1817. Principal of girls' school and of Parent's Academy, New Orleans, and later of the College de Maria in Cuba.

PERKINS, M. B., M. D., in Schenectady, N. Y., June 18; born in New London, Conn., March 14, 1836. Studied chemistry in Germany; taught in the Lawrence Scientific School of Harvard University and in Union College. PERRY, W. F., December 17. in Alabama; born in Tuskegee, Ala. Taught at Talladega; served in the Confederate army; engaged in agriculture; removed to Kentucky, where he conducted a military school.

PILLSBURY, JOHN S., in Minneapolis, October 18; born in Sutton, N. H., July 29, 1828. Received a common school education. After several ventures in busi

ness he engaged in flour milling with his nephew, Charles A. Pillsbury, in Minneapolis. With his brother, George A. Pillsbury, he furnished, in 1872. the capital for the flour-milling firm of Charles A. Pillsbury & Co., which became world-wide in its reputation. In 1863 he became one of the regents of the University of Minnesota; the same year he was elected to the State senate, where he served almost continuously until 1876, and then three terms as governor, until 1882. He became the watchful friend and supporter of the university, especially using in its behalf his official position as State senator and governor. The State failing to meet the necessities of the university, he aided it to the extent of $250,000. He built a home for aged women in Minneapolis, on the East Side, and a library there, and his charities were numerous. He was especially willing to help those who strove to help themselves. He erected a library in his native town in memory of his father and mother. In addition to these benefactions his gifts were numerous and unobtrusive. His ideas of citizenship were large, and he was constantly trying to fill them. POLLOCK, Mrs. LOUISE, July 26; born in Erfurt, Prussia, 1832. Was zealous in the introduction of kindergartens; for over forty years was devoted to the work in Massachusetts and in the District of Columbia, translating, editing, teaching, and lecturing. Miss Susan Plessner Pollock is her daughter, and carries on her mother's work.

POPE, WILLIAM B., M. D., in Alabama, August, 1901; born in Mobile.

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at the Medical College of Alabama in 1884. Became eminent in medicine and was professor in the college.

PORTER, SAMUEL, in Farmington, Conn., September 2; born there January 12, 1810. Graduate of Yale in 1829. Was instructor of deaf mutes at Hartford and New York, and editor of American Annals of the Deaf and Dumb. Was for eighteen years professor in Gallaudet College, Washington, D. C., from which he retired as emeritus in 1884.

PORTER, THOS. C., D. D., LL. D., in Easton, Pa., April 27; born in Alexandria, Pa., January 22, 1822. Graduate of Lafayette in 1840 and of Princeton in 1843. Was professor in Marshall College, Franklin College, and Lafayette College; was a prolific writer.

POTTER, E. N., in the City of Mexico, February 6; born in Schenectady, N. Y., September 20, 1836. Graduate of Union College in 1831 and of the Berkeley Divinity School in 1862. Was rector of an Episcopal church in South Bethlehem, Pa., from 1862 to 1869; professor at Lehigh University from 1869 to 1871, and in 1871 was elected president of Union College. In 1884 accepted the presidency of Hobart College, where he remained until 1897.

PRATT, HIRAM A., in Faribault, Minn., November 22; born in Shutesbury, Mass., January 21, 1819. Graduate of Amherst College in 1848. Taught at Sheldon Falls, Mass., Norwalk, Ohio, Suffield, Conn., and Hartford and Hightstown, N. J. Was superintendent of schools at Faribault from 1877 to 1881, and teacher until he retired from active life.

RAAB, HENRY, in Belleville, Ill. Was of German descent. Served two years as superintendent of public instruction of Illinois.

RAY, JOHN W., at Eureka Springs, Ark., April 12; born in Chester, N. H., December 23, 1814. Graduate of Dartmouth in 1843; taught at Atkinson, Manchester, Pembroke, and Derry, N. H., and at Eastport, Me. Later was pastor in Goffstown, N. H., and elsewhere. Was superintendent of schools in Manchester.

REVELS, HIRAM R. (colored), in Aberdeen, Miss., January 16; born in Fayetteville, N. C., September 1, 1822. Was educated in the Friends' Seminary in

Indiana. Was a leader among the people; assisted in organizing colored regiments; followed the Federal Army to Jackson, Miss. Was elected to the Mississippi senate in 1869, and to the United States Senate in 1870, being the first colored member of that body. Was for a number of years president of Alcorn Agricultural University for Negroes, at Rodney, Miss.

RIGGS, ELIAS, in Scutari, Turkey, January 17; born in New Providence, N. J., November 19, 1810. Graduate of Amherst in 1829, and of Andover Theological Seminary in 1832. Was a missionary to Greece and Turkey until his death. He prepared standard translations of the Bible in Armenian and Bulgarian, and a Bible dictionary in Bulgarian. His publications are found in the Greek, Armenian, and Turkish languages. He was a great force in the education of those peoples.

ROUNDS, CHARLES COLLINS, Ph. D., in Farmington, Me., November 9; born at South Waterford, Me., August 15, 1831. From 1849 to 1853 he was a printer in Portland, Boston, and Cambridge; graduated from Dartmouth College in 1857. Was principal of the academy at South Paris, Me., from 1857 to 1859. From 1859 to 1865 was principal of a public school in Cleveland, Ohio. From 1865 to 1868 was teacher in the Edward Little High School, Auburn, Me.. and was principal there from 1869 to 1883, when he resigned to accept the same position in the State normal school at Plymouth, N. H. Was at the head of this school for thirteen years, resigning to devote his whole time to lecturing and institution work. He was twice president of the New England Normal Association and of the normal department of the National Educational Association. In 1889 was State commissioner from New Hampshire to the Paris Exposition. Was member of the National Council of Education from its organization, its president in 1895, and member of its committee of twelve on rural schools. Dr. Harris said of him: He is one of the best known and ablest of the normal school instructors and lecturers on pedagogy; he is a deep thinker and of a singularly well-balanced mind."

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ROWLAND, H. A., Ph. D., LL. D., in Baltimore, April 16; born in Honesdale, Pa., November 27, 1848. Graduate of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, N. Y., in 1891. After a year employed in railroad engineering became a teacher in Wooster College, Ohio, and later returned to a professorship in the Polytechnic; in 1875 he was elected to the chair of physics in Johns Hopkins University; he spent a year in Europe, and was for some months under Helmholtz in Berlin, where he demonstrated that a moving charge of statical electricity has the same magnetic effect as a current. more he retained his professorship until his death. cover more than a hundred topics. SADTLER, BENJAMIN, in Atlantic City; N. J., April 28; born in Baltimore, Md., December 25, 1823. From 1862 to 1875 was principal of the Lutherville college for women, and from 1876 to 1885 was president of Muhlenberg College. SAFFORD, T. H., in Newark, N. J., June 13; born at Royalton, Vt., January 6, 1836. In his youth displayed extraordinary mathematical abilities. Graduated from Harvard in 1854, and was then employed ten years in the observatory there. Was connected with the United States Coast Survey, and in 1876 became professor of astronomy at Williams College, where he remained until his death.

SALISBURY, EDWARD E., LL. D., in New Haven, Conn., February 5; born in Boston, Mass., April 6, 1814. Graduate of Yale in 1832; studied oriental languages abroad, and became professor of Arabic and Sanscrit in Yale; was elected member of the Asiatic Society in Paris and of other similar societies; gave his valuable collections to the Yale library.

SCHOTT, CHARLES ANTHONY, in Washington, D. C., July 31; born in Mannheim, Germany, August 7, 1826. Graduate of the Polytechnic School in Carlsruhe in 1847 with the degree of C. E. A year later came to the United States and entered the office of the Coast Survey, in which he continued until his death. Was member of the National Academy of Sciences; represented the Government in international conferences; worked out the results of many observations for the Survey, and greatly promoted a knowledge of these facts in the United States.

SCUDDER, HORACE E., in Cambridge, Mass., January 11; born in Boston, October 16, 1838. Graduate of Williams in 1858. Devoted himself to literature, especially for the young. For eight years was editor of the Atlantic Monthly. Was author of a life of Lowell.

SEVERY, JAMES B., at Colorado Springs, March 5; born at Dixfield, Me., June 29, 1840. Received the degree of M. D. at Bellevue College in 1873. Was instructor in Bowdoin Medical College,

SHEARER, A. B., at Germantown, Pa., October 25; born September 18, 1837, at Montgomery, Pa. Graduate of Yale in 1862. Was principal of a classical school in Philadelphia for seven years.

SILL, JOHN M. B., in Detroit, Mich., April 6; born in Black Rock, N. Y., November 23, 1831. Graduate of Michigan Normal School in 1854; became professor in the same school, later principal, and afterwards superintendent of schools at Detroit. In 1873 was minister resident and consul-general for the United States in Korea.

SMITH, E. KENRICK, in Poultney, Vt., January 24; born at New Hampton, N. H., February 12, 1855. Graduate of Dartmouth in 1891 and of the Dartmouth Medical School. Taught at Meredith, Whitefield, Tilton, and Penacook, N. H., and later devoted himself to medicine.

SMITH, RICHMOND M., Ph. D., in New York City, November 11; born in Troy, Ohio, February 9, 1854. Graduate of Amherst in 1875. Studied in Germany, and in 1874 was appointed instructor in Columbia College. Devoted his attention to economics and was active in charity organizations.

SNEED, J. L. T., in Memphis, Tenn., July 29; born in Raleigh, N. C., May 20, 1820. Served in the Confederate Army. Was a judge of the Tennessee supreme court from 1870 to 1878. Published law reports, and was president of Memphis Law School for six years (1887-1893).

SPEAR, P. B., in Hamilton, N. Y., January 25. For over twenty years was connected with Colgate University, Hamilton, N. Y.

STANLEY, PHILIP E., May 19, in Lynn, Mass.; born in Phillips, Me., May 11, 1865. Graduate of Dartmouth in 1893. Taught in Blairstown, N. J., and Providence, R. I., at the Friends' School. Later was devoted to editorial work until his death.

STARKWEATHER, GEORGE P., in New Haven, March 21; born in New Haven July 12, 1872. Graduate of Yale in 1891. Was professor in Sheffield Scientific School. STOCHIN, ABNER C., January 11, at Watertown, Mass.; born in Limington, Me. Graduate of Bowdoin in 1857. Devoted himself to teaching; was school principal at Monmouth and South Berwick, Me., and New Hampton and Penacook, N. H.

SUNDERLAND, BYRON, D. D., in Catskill, N. Y., June 30; born in Shoreham, Vt., November 22, 1819. Graduate of Middlebury in 1838 and of Union Theological Seminary in New York City in 1843. Taught school for a time; was installed Presbyterian pastor in 1845. In 1853 was called to the First Presby terian Church of Washington, D. C. He was twice chaplain of the Senate.

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